<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools are causing developer existential dread</strong>: AI coding tools are causing significant psychological distress among developers, with many feeling their skills are devalued as AI handles tasks they once specialized in. While AI generates code faster, overall productivity isn’t necessarily improving due to new overheads like debugging AI-introduced bugs and managing technical debt, as highlighted by a SonarSource collaboration. This ‘Deep Blue’ phenomenon, referencing AI’s defeat of Kasparov, suggests a perceived devaluation of human expertise. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2K2g5aSSO&amp;id=D9oPYSzsO&amp;id=DwIZWcSFk&amp;id=LGa8UvWgC&amp;id=MVJtIUgmi&amp;id=NRy4QMgxM&amp;id=NY3oBIud2&amp;id=zBlrfeSPo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>India becomes openai’s second largest market for chatgpt</strong>: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that India now accounts for 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making it the second-largest market globally. To achieve this, OpenAI adapted its strategy for India’s price-sensitive market, introducing a sub-$5 tier and free year-long subscriptions, and plans new government partnerships to expand AI access. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/E7X2UrHD0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New RCE and serverless vulnerabilities discovered</strong>: Multiple critical vulnerabilities have been discovered, including a Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw in modern Windows Notepad versions (CVE-2026-20841) that allows malicious Markdown files to execute local binaries. Additionally, a React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) affects serverless Next.js Lambda deployments, enabling Server-Side JavaScript Injection to exfiltrate AWS credentials, as reported by security researchers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AAuuxbltu&amp;id=fSewiiKKS&amp;id=jk8Zg0MX3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Securing non-human identities in the cloud</strong>: Non-Human Identities (NHIs) like API keys and tokens are critical cloud security assets, with advanced management solutions claiming a 35% reduction in breach risk and improved compliance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ISqrlUoED&amp;id=Ypw3CG2Vn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Localstack drops community edition, moves to paid model</strong>: LocalStack is discontinuing its open-source Community Edition, moving to a single Docker image requiring user registration and a paid subscription for full features, raising concerns among developers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fsky5EERm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New ruby toolkit for llm integration</strong>: A new Ruby toolkit, <code>llm.rb</code>, offers a zero-dependency, unified API for integrating multiple LLMs, including OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic, with support for chat, streaming, tool calling, and multimodal prompts. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eI4XzTrQw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New rag system preserves document structure for higher accuracy</strong>: PageIndex, a new RAG system, achieves 98.7% accuracy on FinanceBench by preserving hierarchical document structure, outperforming vector-based RAG which often destroys contextual integrity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UN3PzKAFA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vulkan 1.3 compliance on apple devices with kosmickrisp</strong>: KosmicKrisp, a Vulkan-on-Metal driver developed by LunarG, has achieved feature parity with MoltenVK and been upstreamed to Mesa 26.0, enabling Vulkan 1.3 compliance on Apple devices. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2qlomA9u7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Flashpoint archive preserves 200,000 web games</strong>: Flashpoint Archive has preserved over 200,000 web games and animations across 100+ browser plugins, offering open-source software for playing this content and ensuring game preservation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/H8xIib4Ux" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Dash robot reverse engineered for enhanced control</strong>: A developer reverse-engineered the Dash educational robot, uncovering its BLE communication protocol and JSON message structure, and successfully ported its Python 2 library to Python 3. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GRUwDEkm4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-generated security reports shut down curl’s bug bounty</strong>: Daniel Stenberg, the cURL creator, reports that AI-generated security reports have flooded their bug bounty program, dropping accuracy from 1 in 6 to 1 in 20-30, forcing its shutdown. Apparently, AI is great at generating noise, but not so much at actual signal, burdening open-source projects with ‘AI slop’ instead of real contributions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7e4x0vONT&amp;id=UMatWajxo&amp;id=rh5pHHgby" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hugging face’s reachi mini robot: advanced ai or just a pi?</strong>: Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics released the Reachi Mini, an open-source educational robot kit, marketed with advanced AI capabilities. In reality, it’s a Raspberry Pi-powered learning platform with ‘rough edges’ in setup and privacy concerns due to default cloud connectivity. So, it’s less ‘advanced AI’ and more ‘some assembly required, good luck with the IPv6 bugs.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/f1KNRZS82" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Engineers flee xai over ‘unhinged’ grok and safety concerns</strong>: Multiple engineers are reportedly leaving xAI, citing concerns about the company’s approach to AI safety, with sources claiming Elon Musk wants Grok to be ‘more unhinged.’ Because nothing says ‘responsible AI development’ like actively pushing for less safety and then having your employees jump ship after your AI generates a million sexualized deepfakes. Peak innovation, folks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uhJEF1Wo4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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